Slim & Soph - Sailing Nakama
Welcome aboard SV Nakama, We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple tryna get by living aboard our tiny retro sailboat with our cat Chilli. We sail the Australian coastline whilst attending university online and take you with us. After putting study on the back burner for years as we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure, we thought why not have both? Fed up with the outrageous rental prices in our hometown, the idea of doing it afloat came to mind. We figured we could scrape by on our tight student budget if we stopped paying way too much rent and lived minimally on the ocean, whilst continuing our passion for adventure. The plan for now, is to keep sailing onwards, keeping Australia to our left and once we're done doing that...Who knows. Our mission is to prove that anyone can do it, you don’t need the fanciest boat or a squillion bucks, just a whole lot of ambition and a willingness to make mistakes and learn. So join us on this whacky adventure! Slim & Soph xoxo
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Welcome aboard SV Nakama,
We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple tryna get by living aboard our tiny retro sailboat with our cat Chilli. We sail the Australian coastline whilst attending university online and take you with us.
After putting study on the back burner for years as we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure, we thought why not have both? Fed up with the outrageous rental prices in our hometown, the idea of doing it afloat came to mind. We figured we could scrape by on our tight student budget if we stopped paying way too much rent and lived minimally on the ocean, whilst continuing our passion for adventure. The plan for now, is to keep sailing onwards, keeping Australia to our left and once we’re done doing that…Who knows.
Our mission is to prove that anyone can do it, you don’t need the fanciest boat or a squillion bucks, just a whole lot of ambition and a willingness to make mistakes and learn.
So join us on this whacky adventure!
Slim & Soph xoxo
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Disaster Strikes in Pirate Waters
We’ve been at sea for 20 days, and we still have 3000 nautical miles ahead of us. But as disaster strikes in pirate waters it feels like we’ll never get there. Sailing across the Pacific Ocean is proving to be filled with many highs and lows. Being adr...
Adrift in the Doldrums: Storms & Bucket Showers (Days 12-18 Pacific Crossing)
AD Thanks to June's Journey for sponsoring this video. Download June's Journey for free here: https://cherrypick.gg/SlimAndSoph The lack of wind in an ocean of endless calm is met with both celebration and despair. On one hand, it means we’ve entered t...
Finding Routine in a Race Across the Pacific (Day 7/38)
#EcoFlowAustralia#Solargenerator#EcoFlowDELTA3Plus EcoFlow EOFY Sale – up to 45% off! Links: Official website: https://bit.ly/EcoFlowSlimnSoph Amazon: https://amzn.to/4joKKsp eBay: https://bit.ly/4klM53O It’s day 7 of us sailing across the Pacific O...
38 Day Pacific Ocean Non-Stop Crossing (Australia to Japan)
38 days sailing across the Pacific Ocean. Nonstop and no engine. Australia to Japan, 5,500 nautical miles and it's just my mum and I aboard for the journey. Thanks to Renogy for supporting this video: Follow the links below to check out their huge off-gr...
The Hardest…But Best Thing We’ve Ever Done
We estimated this unavoidable voyage would be just over 600 nautical miles and we’re now smack bang in the middle of crossing the Great Australian bight. Enjoying the episodes? Becoming a Patron enables us to ensure the continuity of Slim & Soph - S...
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WELCOME ABOARD SV Nakama | crew meet n’ greet/ boat tour
We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple with a cat living aboard exploring our great Aussie backyard - starting with the beautiful coral coast! Unlike most vessels, on Nakama, she's the skipper. We welcome you aboard our floating home Nakama! After ...
ANTIFOULING 34 FT YACHT by hand | cracked rudder hanging on by a thread CH. 1
It had been a red hot minute since Nakama came out of the water, closer to 2 years... poor girl was feeling a bit sluggish dragging around what looked like a garden bed on her belly. We figured it was about time we saved our pennies and book her in to be s...
SHIP WRECKS and a BAR CROSSING | breaking blue water CH. 2
We throw the ropes and begin our journey! First stop, Moreton Island before breaking blue water northbound to cross the Mooloolaba bar! We are over the moon to finally have the old girl cutting through the waters and taking us to faraway lands. And our day...
WIDE BAY BAR CROSSING | feat. flooded bilges CH.3
We've been dying to explore Fraser Island, BUT to get there we must first go through the infamous Wide Bay Bar! This bar is known as the most dangerous bar in Queensland and is something we have been planning and anticipating for months. With a few early s...
SAILING TO FRASER ISLAND with the most beautiful lake we’ve ever seen | CH.4
We begin the journey up the Sandy Straits and find out why it's called the Sandy Straits when we hit the bottom. Following being attacked by Midgees we push on north. After hours of misguided trekking and a little bit of hitchhiking, we end up at what must...
ARE WE SINKING? CH.5
Are we sinking? We asked ourselves when we found the bilges again full of salty water. We need to get to the bottom of this before we get to the bottom of the ocean.
DINGO SAFARI ON A YACHT CH.6
Slim's on a dingo hunt! So back to Fraser we go! Determined to spot on! We cook up the worlds wobbliest nachos and sleep to the song of the whales echoing through the hull at the astonishingly beautiful Wathumba Creek. All the while keeping a keen eye o...
HOLY SHIP! nighttime surfing in a channel | we get booted out by a ship CH. 7
High winds and high seas we surf down waves towards Burnett heads. Following yet another last minute decision we sail back towards the mainland ...leaving Fraser behind us in the moonlight. Upon arrival we a confronted by a pilot boat essentially booting u...
CAN’T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED | island to ourselves CH. 8
Following some adventures and a few days of hiding from the wind. we set of at day break in agitated seas. Navigating our way through big hulks of steel to Hummocky island. A tiny blip on the map we spotted a few days earlier. With not much information we ...
ABANDONED RESORT on a Great Barrier Reef Island CH. 9
We discover an abandoned resort and more importantly a bar on Great Keppel Island. We wash off the hangover diving the beautiful reefs and have to get creative with our increasingly low supply of food onboard.
VEGO RUNS OUT OF TOFU | Catch and Cook CH.10
We ran out of tofu and basically everything else so we are on a mission to catch a fish. Still on Great Keppel Island, Slim is determined to go catch us some dinner. With a combined experience of bugger all, we get lucky and join friends on the beach to sh...
HANGING ON BY A THREAD in yachty paradise | CH. 11
Where to begin, we commandeer an old Toyota Camry on the mainland during a much needed supply run. Then battling a hangover and the seas we beat into the wind back to Keppel Island where we commence a game of cat and mouse with the wind. Our musical chairs...
ESCAPING CYCLONE SEASON TO FRASER ISLAND ON FIRE CH.12
With no autopilot but with cyclone season approaching, we make the call to head south for summer. Leaving Great Keppel Island behind we embark on our first overnight voyage on Nakama with an estimated 70 hours at sea hoping to get back to Tangalooma. Thing...
CATCHING LUNCH WITH SALVAGED DRIFTWOOD | The End of a Chapter CH. 13
After crossing the Wide Bay bar and narrowly missing a whale, we are surprised to find a fish on the end of our driftwood contraption. We are on our way south, retracing steps. We sail through the night back into Moreton Bay and then inland through the cha...
Our First Christmas Afloat | We say goodbye to our drone after sailing to South Solitary Island
Yep, we crashed our drone on Christmas day. A slight interruption into our usual videos, we jump into the future for a Christmas Day special. We hop aboard the Najad 49 in our family and sail out to South Solitary Island where we loose our dear drone. We s...
Doing a Law Degree From a Boat CH. 14
Who said you can't do a law degree from a boat? We rock back up to Nakama after some time away, a couple of things have changed. Slims started his law degree, we got an autohelm and well Soph stepped on a screw? We head over to South Stradbroke Island whil...
SAILING BETWEEN STORMS from Gold Coast to Coffs Harbour CH.15
Leaving spontaneously in the late afternoon, we set off back into the ocean towards Coffs Harbour. Sailing into the night we are confronted with lightning and some of the strongest winds we have faced on Nakama yet. As the sunrises, we find ourselves off C...
THRASHED BY HUGE LOW-PRESSURE SYSTEM. We sailed to safety just in time CH.16
We are stuck in a 10.47 metre boat surrounded by heavy rain, damaging winds and just metres from dangerous surf. We got to Coffs Harbour just in time for a huge low-pressure system to grace us with its presence. We realise how small Nakama really is as we ...
DAY SAILING A BENETEAU OCEANIS 42.3 | Diving into the new year CH.17
We finish off 2020 by hopping aboard our mates Beneteau and sail out to an island off the NSW coast. We get up early in attempt to leave Coffs Harbour to head further south, though we wake to the most recent update of the Covid situation in the greater Syd...
EVERYTHING IS BREAKING | we have to turn back Part I Ch.18
Broken bones, broken engine, broken autohelm... we decide to turn back. Thinking we are hitting the ocean again, we don't get very far before our engine conks out on us, the autopilot isn't keeping us on course and Slim is in terrible pain and not able to ...
SHE’S THE SKIPPER & TODAY SHE’S A MECHANIC | Part II CH. 19
The repairs continue. Last week, our engine and autopilot failed on us. Priority number one, the engine. We find that the engine oil is completely contaminated with diesel, not good. We bypass the old lift pump and run a new electric fuel pump and do multi...
GALLEY REFURBISH | Our 1989 Duncanson 34 CH. 20
We have re-evaluated our plans and decided to start looking at our never ending boat list of chores. With majority of the wiring on the boat being absolutely chaotic we attempt to gain some order. In the process of fixing our manual bilge pump we have foun...
SAILED INTO JAIL | Behind bars on my 23rd S1CH.1
I went to jail on my 23rd birthday. Where did I go so wrong? We left at sparrow fart out of Coffs Harbour towards Trial Bay. Of course, we don't have any instruments working. All good though, we do it the old fashioned way, counting our knots and checking ...
DOWNWIND SAILING IS THE BEST TYPE OF SAILING S1CH.2
The most enjoying type of sailing is downwind sailing, an upright boat with high speeds *chefs kiss of approval*. We spend the afternoon at Trial bay, making some small repairs in order to sail again in the morning. We wake early and head off, our engine i...
YACHTLIFE: Dinghy Repairs and Fishing S1CH.3
"IS THAT A TUNA?" Soph gasped as she laid eyes on the biggest fish she has ever witnessed being caught. Coffs harbour still has us hostage with its boat jobs. We attempt to fix our dinghy, twice... We put our dinghy misery to bed and jump into a tinny fo...
WE GOT A 3RD CREW MEMBER exciting news S1CH.4
We have very exciting news this week. After servicing a winch, cutting Slims hair we finally received something we have been considering to get for a long time, we couldn't be more stoked for all the possibilities it will provide us with. Hopefully this is...
SURFING WAVES AT 18 KNOTS IN 40 KNOT WINDS S1CH.5
WE GOT TO 18 KNOTS!!! wwooooooo! Under time pressure to get Red Jacket to Yamba, we leave in the early hours of the morning and head out into 30 knots. With just 2 reefs in the main, that is all Red needed to get going off waves. We hooned down sizable sea...
AUSTRALIA’S FLOOD DISASTER ON ANCHOR S1CH.6
Australia is experiencing a natural disaster flooding event. We do our best to find somewhere safe to anchor as we have seen the unimaginable on the news. Houses, cows and other large debris are floating from upriver in the various river systems along the ...
BYRON BAY FROM THE OCEAN | Don’t trust carrots on boats S1CH.7
Sailing from Yamba to the Gold Coast means passing our hometown, Byron Bay AND! we actually got to see it this time... The massive Australian floods are settling. After a skate to the Yamba Bar, we are happy to see the crossing conditions have eased and i...
GOLD COAST WE’RE COMING AT YA! | Living aboard a sailboat S1CH.8
This week living aboard a boat has brought us right into the heart of the Gold Coast. Our outboard has broken down, leaving us floating away in the current, luckily we get saved by a fellow yachty but are stuck on the boat in the rain until it's fixed. We ...
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE NEED SPACE? living aboard a 10 metre sailboat S1CH.9
Um can I come back aboard now? We head up through the back channels of the Gold Coast, weaving through houseboats, ducking underneath powerlines and almost crashing another drone. Making it into Moreton Bay, we head to Peel Island before Soph makes Slim g...
WHERE IT ALL STARTED | Our Home S1CH.10
We're not on the boat anymore. A journey into the Australian Hinterland. We introduce you to our home, family, friends and life before sailing took over. Waking up in the hills we trek down 8km of dirt road to good old Mullumbimby to meet Slims Mum. We f...
SAILING AUSTRALIA | how not to throw a spinnaker S1CH.11
Our first time throwing our spinnaker, we don't know whether it is asymmetrical or symmetrical, there is only one way to find out. So up she goes. We're learning by doing and we are doing what we can, how not to throw a spinnaker. We leave Brisbane, it's ...
JUST TWO SALTY SAILORS TRYNA GET BY S1CH.12
Well, it all starts off with a couple of boats directly in front of us upstream collecting one another. What do we do? There is no one on board and it's getting dark. Where in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, anchored in "the pond", a crowd...
HOW WE SHOWER WITHOUT A SHOWER & WE’RE ON THE ROAD AGAIN S1CH.13
Soph hasn't had a shower in a week so and is going slightly loopy from UNI assignments, so she treats herself to a saucepan shower. We get up at sparrow fart to leave Mooloolaba but find a blown fuse that runs all of our 2 instruments. Our day plans drast...
OCEAN LAGOON ANCHORAGE & CROSSING WIDE BAY BAR + a monohulls guide to Double Island Point S1CH.14
Ah, so this is what Double Island Point is all about, we show you Double Island Point from a monohull, don't worry we let you in on the info so you can also join the fun. Waking up at beautiful Double Island Point, we take advantage of the bluest water we...
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